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Mattermost documentation
Mattermost documentation
  • About Mattermost
    • Mattermost overview
    • Use cases
      • Maximize your Microsoft investment
      • Secure command and control
      • DevOps collaboration
      • Incident response collaboration
    • Security overview
    • Integrations overview
    • Subscription overview
      • Cloud subscriptions
        • Cloud Dedicated
        • Cloud Shared
        • Cloud VPC Private Connectivity
      • Self-hosted subscriptions
      • Non-profit subscriptions
      • Editions and offerings
    • Zero Trust with Mattermost
    • Releases and life cycle
      • Release policy
      • Server
        • Server releases
        • v10 changelog
        • v9 changelog
        • Unsupported legacy releases
        • Version archive
      • Desktop
        • Desktop releases
        • Desktop app changelog
      • Mobile
        • Mobile releases
        • Mobile apps changelog
      • Removed and deprecated features
    • Corporate directory integration
    • Certifications and compliance overview
    • Accessibility compliance policy
    • Frequently asked questions (FAQ)
      • General questions
      • Community questions
      • Notifications questions
      • Video, audio, and screen sharing questions
      • Enterprise questions
      • License questions
      • Mattermost source available iicense questions
      • Integration questions
      • Use cases
      • Product questions
      • High trust questions
      • Design decision questions
      • Business questions
      • Illicit use questions
  • User Guide
    • Connect and collaborate
      • Access your Mattermost workspace
        • Install the desktop app
        • Install the iOS mobile app
        • Install the Android mobile app
        • Log out of Mattermost
      • Organize using teams
        • Team settings
        • Team keyboard shortcuts
      • Organize using custom user groups
      • Invite people
      • Learn about Mattermost roles
      • Collaborate with audio and video
      • Collaborate within channels
        • Channel types
        • Channel naming conventions
        • Communicate a channel's focus and scope
        • Create channels
        • Rename channels
        • Convert public channels to private channels
        • Convert group messages to private channels
        • Join and leave channels
        • Make calls in Mattermost
        • Manage channel members
        • Browse channels
        • Navigate between channels
        • Mark channels as favorites
        • Manage channel bookmarks
        • Mark channels as unread
        • Archive and unarchive channels
      • Communicate with messages and threads
        • Send messages
        • Reply to messages
        • React with emojis and GIFs
        • Organize conversations
        • Mark messages as unread
        • Forward messages
        • Share links to channels and messages
        • Save and pin messages
        • Set message reminders
        • Search for messages
        • Schedule messages
        • Format messages
        • Set message priority
        • Mention people
        • Share files in messages
      • Collaborate within Microsoft Teams
      • Chat with Copilot
        • Copilot Context Management
      • Keyboard shortcuts
        • Keyboard accessibility
        • Run slash commands
        • Built-in-slash-commands
      • Extend Mattermost with integrations
    • Build repeatable processes
      • Learn about collaborative playbooks
      • Work with collaborative playbooks
      • Work with runs
      • Work with tasks
      • Work with notifications and updates
      • Work with metrics and goals
      • Share and collaborate
      • Interact with collaborative playbooks
    • Customize your preferences
      • Manage your notifications
        • Troubleshoot notifications
        • Manage your web notifications
        • Manage your desktop notifications
        • Manage your mobile notifications
        • Manage your thread reply notifications
        • Manage your @mention & keyword notifications
        • Manage your channel-specific notifications
      • Customize your Mattermost theme
      • Customize your channel sidebar
      • Manage your profile
      • Manage your security preferences
      • Set your status & availability
      • Manage your display options
      • Manage your sidebar options
      • Manage advanced options
      • Manage your plugin preferences
      • Customize your desktop app experience
      • Connect to multiple workspaces
  • Deployment Guide
    • Application Architecture
    • Server Deployment
      • Preparations
        • Review software and hardware requirements
        • (Recommended) Set up an NGINX proxy
        • (Recommended) Configure Mattermost Calls
        • (Recommended) Enable Mattermost Copilot
        • (Optional) Set up TLS
        • (Optional) Use an image proxy
        • (Optional) Configure CloudFront to host Mattermost static assets
        • (Optional) Use an outbound proxy
        • (Optional) Use sockets to set up the database
      • Deploy with Kubernetes
      • Deploy with Containers
      • Deploy with Linux
      • Architecture reference
      • Scale for enterprise
        • Scale up to 200 users
        • Scale up to 2000 users
        • Scale up to 15000 users
        • Scale up to 30000 users
        • Scale up to 50000 users
        • Scale up to 80000 users
        • Scale up to 90000 users
        • Scale up to 100000 users
        • Scale up to 200000 users
    • Desktop App Deployment
      • Install desktop app on Linux
      • Distribute a custom desktop app
      • Silent Windows desktop distribution
      • Desktop MSI installer and group policy guide
      • Desktop App custom dictionaries
      • Desktop managed resources
    • Mobile App Deployment
      • Deploy using an EMM provider
      • Distribute a custom mobile app
      • Host your own push proxy service
      • Mobile VPN options
      • Mobile apps FAQ
    • Deployment Troubleshooting
      • General deployment troubleshooting
      • Docker deployment troubleshooting
      • Desktop app troubleshooting
      • Mobile app troubleshooting
      • PostgreSQL installation troubleshooting
      • MySQL installation troubleshooting
  • Administration Guide
    • Self-hosted billing
    • Cloud workspace management
      • Workspace migration
      • Cloud data residency
      • Cloud IP Filtering
      • Cloud Bring Your Own Key (BYOK)
    • Server maintenance
      • Install a license key
      • Generate a support packet
      • Backup and disaster recovery
      • Upgrade Mattermost server
        • Important upgrade notes
        • Prepare to upgrade Mattermost
        • Communicate scheduled maintenance best practices
        • Upgrade Mattermost Server
        • Enterprise install and upgrade
        • Administrator onboarding tasks
        • Enterprise roll-out-checklist
        • Welcome email to end users
        • Downgrade Mattermost Server
        • Open source components
      • Secure Mattermost
        • Encryption options
        • Transport encryption
        • Multi-factor authentication
        • Delegated granular administration
        • Custom terms of service
        • User and group provisioning via AD/LDAP
        • SAML-based SSO
          • Okta SAML Configuration
          • Generate self-signed certificates
          • OneLogin SAML Configuration
          • Microsoft ADFS SAML Configuration for Windows Server 2012
          • Microsoft ADFS SAML Configuration for Windows Server 2016
          • Keycloak SAML Configuration
        • SAML SSO techical documentation
        • Certificate-based authentication
      • Scale your deployment
        • Scale for Enterprise
          • Scale up to 200 users
          • Scale up to 2000 users
          • Scale up to 15000 users
          • Scale up to 30000 users
          • Scale up to 50000 users
          • Scale up to 80000 users
          • Scale up to 90000 users
          • Scale up to 100000 users
          • Scale up to 200000 users
        • Scale up to 200 users
        • Scale up to 2000 users
        • Scale up to 15000 users
        • Scale up to 30000 users
        • Scale up to 50000 users
        • Scale up to 80000 users
        • Scale up to 90000 users
        • Scale up to 100000 users
        • Scale up to 200000 users
      • Mattermost error codes
      • mmctl
      • CLI
      • Feature labels
    • Server configuration
      • Elasticsearch
      • High availability
      • Store configuration in your database
      • Server configuration options
        • Self-hosted workspace edition and license settings
        • Cloud workspace subscription, billing, and account settings
        • Reporting configuration settings
        • User management configuration settings
        • Environment configuration settings
        • Site configuration settings
        • Authentication configuration settings
        • Plugins configuration settings
        • Integrations configuration settings
        • Compliance configuration settings
        • Experimental configuration settings
        • Deprecated configuration settings
        • Bleve search
      • Environment variables
      • Customize the server
        • Customize Mattermost
        • Custom branding tools
        • Code signing custom builds
      • SMTP email setup
      • Email templates
      • Chinese, Japanese, and Korean search
      • SSL client certificate setup
      • Connected workspaces
      • Telemetry
    • User provisioning
      • Provisioning workflows
      • AD/LDAP setup
      • AD/LDAP manage team or private channel membership
      • GitLab SSO
      • OpenID Connect SSO
      • Google SSO
      • Entra ID SSO
      • Convert OAuth 2.0 providers to OpenID
    • User management
      • Permissions
      • Manage team and channel configuration
      • Advanced permissions infrastructure
      • Guest accounts
    • Monitoring and performance
      • Optimize your Mattermost workspace
      • Collect performance metrics
      • Deploy Prometheus and Grafana for performance monitoring
      • Performance monitoring metrics
      • Push notification health targets
      • Performance alerting guide
      • Ensuring releases perform at scale
      • Manage user surveys
      • User satisfaction surveys
      • Notify admin
      • System-wide notifications
      • Statistics
      • In-product notices
      • Health checks
      • Health check probes
      • Product limits
    • Compliance
      • Compliance export
      • Compliance monitoring
      • Electronic discovery
      • Data retention
      • Logging
      • Export channel data
      • Legal Hold
      • JSON audit log schema
    • Migration
      • Migrate from MySQL to PostgreSQL
        • Automate PostgreSQL migration
        • Manually migrate to PostgreSQL
      • Server migration guide
      • Migrate from Slack
      • Bulk export tool
      • Bulk loading tool
      • Migration announcement email template
  • Integrate and extend
    • GitHub interoperability
    • GitLab interoperability
    • Jira interoperability
    • Community for Mattermost for Microsoft 365
    • Mattermost Playbooks for Microsoft Teams
    • Microsoft Calendar interoperability
    • Microsoft Teams interoperability
    • Microsoft Teams Meetings interoperability
    • ServiceNow interoperability
    • Zoom interoperability
  • Develop with Mattermost
  • Get help with Mattermost
  • Join our community
  • Learn how we work
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